Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero
— August 31, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. PDT

GRAPHT|MOV has caught the eyes of Street Fighter 5 fans more than a few times with his explosive and creative Chun-Li play, but the Master of Vampires will most certainly go down in the history books as a Third Strike legend thanks to his four Super Battle Opera victories.

Of course, every journey has a beginning, and MOV wasn't always the show-stopping Chun-Li player he is now known to be. During his EVO interview with BornFree, the Japanese player opens up about a particular story from his early years involving two of the Japanese fighting game gods: Rhoto|Tokido and CYG|Daigo.

Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero
— August 20, 2019 at 11:43 a.m. PDT

Anyone who has lost a stream match before knows just how much it sucks to go back and look at the tapes to try to figure out what you did wrong, but we have to give it up to VP|Justin Wong as he recently visited the most famous moment in competitive fighting game history... a sequence that he was on the losing end of.

The exceptionally-storied fighting game legend rewinds the footage and watches it right along with us while commentating about the decisions and thought processes that he and CYG|Daigo Umehara were going through during this bout.

Sponsorships are kinda a funny thing in the fighting game community, as it's normally carried out as part of a larger eSports team though there are actual consumer brands out there supporting players as well.

Goichi "CO|Go1" Kishida is seen as one of the best Dragon Ball FighterZ players around as well as anime fighters in general, and while his primary sponsor for competing is Cyclops Gaming, Rohto Z is also in there landing the top player in his very own commercial in Japan... for eye drops.

Teppen has been available — in most areas — for just over a week now, but it's still a little surprising to see the amount of detail and attention paid to the characters represented in the mobile title.

As a joint venture between Capcom and GungHo Online Entertainment, Teppen features all original, high-quality artwork for their cards which can be viewed in full upon receiving them from a pack. One of the most represented series featuring in the new card game is of course Street Fighter, and we've gone and collected over a dozen of the best pieces of character art from pretty much every entry in the franchise including the original, Street Fighter 3 and SF5.

What are all of those exciting, strange, and unbelievable moments in fighting games if only you and your opponent ever get to see them? The Funny and Cool Moments series has been rounding up some of the best clips from across the internet for some time now, and today we're treated with the 112th episode.

Creator LiangHuBBB brings us a fresh installment of the video series that showcases plenty of incredible bits of footage across numerous games. Included here we see new games like Samurai Shodown and even upcoming title Granblue Fantasy: Versus.

Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero
— June 18, 2019 at 4:29 a.m. PDT

It was in December of 1999 that action-adventure title Shenmue launched on the Sega Dreamcast, but only here in 2019 have fans finally figured out how to unlock a secret cut scene that pays homage to the Street Fighter franchise.

Discovered by a modder named "nullpo," the easter egg sees the game's protagonist, Ryo Hazuki, pull off a Shin Shoryuken on another character during a quick time event scene. Why did this take 20 years for fans to figure out? Probably because it's impossible to pull off without first doing some tweaking to the game's binary.

Nintendo's Switch console has a strong line up of fighting games from Ultra Street Fighter 2 to Dragon Ball FighterZ, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle and most recently with Mortal Kombat 11 — and that's all before Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The ability to come across quality arcade sticks for the platform natively have been a bit harder to come by, however.

Hori and Capcom have teamed up to bring some new Street Fighter-branded fight sticks to the Switch featuring art from Third and the classic cabinets for SF2 in their full-sized Real Arcade Pro and the more portable Fighting Stick Mini.

Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero
— May 22, 2019 at 11:06 a.m. PDT

Now with more than 30 years of Street Fighter and countless other fighting games to choose from, the FGC has a very rich selection of titles under its belt. Of the countless games out there, one seems to often stand above the others in the domain of public opinion: 1999's Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.

Why this game? What is it that makes this third iteration of the third Street Fighter that causes so many to hold it in such high regard? Maximilian recently weighed into the discussion with his two cents.

This weekend, Stunfest is taking place in Rennes, France. While it may not have Capcom Pro Tour status this year, it's still got a ton of fighting game action coming your way.

Some of the notable competitors set to fight it out in their respective main titles are PXP|A Foxy Grampa, SNB|Abadango, Solary|Glutonny, FNATIC|Akainu, SST|Shuton, gwak.fr|Shenzo, Will2Pac, HappyPow, VGIA|Shanks, EnVyUS|Layo, Tominaga and Genki, though there are of course many more present as well.